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Friday, November 1, 2013

Creation vs. Evolution: Part I

I was recently told that “the
debate between creation and evolution has been over for centuries and only
religious fanatics deny the science.” Now this begs the question: does science
disprove creationism? Is there no proof for intelligent design in the universe?
Is there no evidence of a Creator? You may have heard people ask questions along
these lines and maybe you have had them yourself. Atheists like to make a
belief in God into something to be mocked, a belief only held by the uneducated
and foolish. Are we foolish to believe in a Creator, is evolution proven? No, evolution
is not a fact. It is riddled with holes in its very basic claims. Evolution’s basic
claim that life evolved from simpler life forms lacks any hard evidence. If
evolution

is really the process that produced today’s life forms, we should see
evidence for it in the fossil record. Also, if evolution produced life, luck is
the only basis for the enormous amounts ‘coincidences’ that make the universe
the perfect habitat for human life.

If everything on this planet
evolved from simpler life forms, there should be fossils of half evolved
creatures, right? Out of the thousands and thousands of fossils that have been
discovered, there has not been a single concrete example of a half evolved life
form. These half evolved fossils are known to science as intermediate links. Evolutionists
have been desperately searching for intermediate links for years. There are
only two fossils that have ever been discovered on which evolutionists can base
a shaky claim to be intermediate links; and a very loose claim at that. One of
the two fossils is known as Australopithecus. Scientists believe
Australopithecus is an example of an intermediate link between apes and humans.
This fossil has all of the characteristics of an ape except for one small
detail, its ankle bones could possibly be arranged in a way that would allow
this ape to walk upright more comfortably. Now this is a very small and
circumstantial piece of evidence on which to be basing the evolution of humans
from apes. If evolution really did produce all of the life we observe today,
then the fossil record would be filled with intermediate links, but this is not
the case at all. We should see half evolved creatures such as one eared
antelope, one eyed giraffes, or legless cows, but we have no evidence of
anything of that sort.

The
next point is something called the Cambrian explosion. The Cambrian explosion
presents a very difficult obstacle for evolution. The earth’s different rock
strata are separated into different layers, the deepest level of rock obviously
being the oldest and the higher layers are younger. If everything evolved from
lower life forms throughout millions of years, the deeper, older rock strata
should contain simpler life forms. This is where the problem for evolutionists
is presented. In one of the oldest layers of rock know as the Cambrian layer,
fossils of practically every life form we see on the planet today have been
found. If evolution were true, then the Cambrian layer should only contain very
simple life forms like bacteria, but it is overflowing with complex life forms.
This fact backs up the words of the Bible which say that God created all of the
animals on the same day (Gen1:24-25).

Another
interesting concept is something called the anthropic principle. To explain the
anthropic principle I will use an analogy used by Dr. Rice Broocks in his book God’s Not Dead. The example he gives is
this: if you arrived at a hotel, opened the door to your room, and found your
favorite foods, your clothes, pictures of your family, and your favorite movie
playing, you would expect that someone
knew you were coming. The universe contains incredible evidence that it was
designed with humans in mind. The very air we breathe is a testimony to this
fact. Air is not made primarily of oxygen, but of nitrogen. Lucky for us,
nitrogen does not react with our bodies in any way and is perfect for diluting
oxygen. Although we need oxygen to survive, too much of it is poisonous to the
human body. Too much oxygen can cause lung damage and even blindness. Another example of these lucky coincidences
is water. Water is one of the only substances where its solid form floats in
its liquid form. While ice floats in water, this is not the case with the
majority of compounds. The reason that this is the case is because of something
called hydrogen bonding. The hydrogen atoms in H2O form bonds with
each other, causing the solid state of water to become denser then its liquid
state. Why is this important? Well, if ice were less dense than liquid water, when
water sources began to freeze the top layer of ice that formed would sink to
the bottom and the water source would begin to freeze from the bottom up.
Instead of forming top layers of ice, our water sources would freeze completely
and kill all of the life contained in them. Scientists have hypothesized that
without hydrogen bonding life on earth could not exist. These lucky
coincidences appear all throughout the universe, pointing to an intelligent
designer who created the universe with humans in mind.

If
evolution were really the process that produced the life we see today, the
fossil record would be full of intermediate links and rock strata would have
increasingly more complex life forms. Neither of these situations are the case.
Millions of years of evolution would have provided overwhelming evidence for
evolving life forms and the fact that the universe appears to be incredibly fine
tuned for human life cannot simply be explained away as chance. The universe is
full of thousands of lucky coincidences that allow human life to thrive. Also
remember this: science cannot prove anything. Scientific laws that had been
believed as a fact for thousands of years have been shown to be faulty. Science
can never prove that something is a fact; it can only supply evidence for
something to the point where the evidence for something outweighs the evidence
against. Evolution, despite many claims that it is a fact, is lacking evidence
for many of its key components. The pure majesty of creation points to an
intelligent, majestic designer. As Romans 1:20 says, “For since the creation of
the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have
been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that
people are without excuse.” The majesty of God has been revealed throughout
creation and “the heavens proclaim the glory of God” (Psalm 19:1). If someone, no
matter the weight of evidence, will not believe what the evidence supports,
their argument leaves the intellectual realm and becomes a spiritual issue. Whether
you are an atheist or a believer, if we are actually on a search for truth, not
simply facts to support our beliefs, we will do as Socrates said and, “Follow
the evidence wherever it leads.”